Adjustable support



L. L. GILCREASE. ADJUSTABLE SUPPORT APPLICATION FILED APR. 9. I920.

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L. L. GILCREASE.

ADJUSTABLE SUPPORT. APPLICATION FILED APR. 9. 1920.

1,364,433. Patented Jan. 4, 1921.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

ADJUSTABLE SUPPORT.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Jan. 4, 1921.

Application filed April 9, 1920. Serial No. 372,687.

T 0 all whom it may concern Be it known that I, LEONARD I. GIL- GREASE,a citizen of the United States, and resident of Reno, in the county ofWashoe and State of Nevada, have invented new and useful Improvements inAdjustable Supports, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to adjustable supports and comprehends improvementsin my prior Patent, No. 1,320,613, for supports, issued November 4,1919.

The principal object of the present invention resides in the provisionof a support including a vertically adjustable head and a handle soarranged and constructed as to lock the head against vertical move-.

ment in carrying the support, and further the handle being adapted to bedisposed parallel to the support and retained against swinging away fromthe same when the latter is in operative position.

A further object of the invention is to provide a support of thischaracter which includes a pivoted handle adapted to be swung to alateral position when it is desired to carry the support and which whenin such position will retain the head, and standard with which the headis telescopically engaged, against movement with respect to each other.

Another object of the invention is to provide a support principallyadapted to be engaged beneath the axle of a vehicle after the same hasbeen jacked up and to support the axle in such position and whichincludes a handle whereby the movable member of the support may beraised and lowered and which serves to lock the support standard andhead. against movement when the support is being carried from one pointto another by the handle. I

An additional object of the invention is to provide a device having theabove characteristics which is simple in construction, consists of fewparts, and may be manufactured and sold at a nominal cost.

With the above and other objects in mind, my invention consists in thenovel combination of elements, constructions and arrangement of parts,operation and specific features, all of which will be hereinafterenlarged upon and explicitly defined in the subjoined claims, theinvention being illustrated in the accompanying drawings wherein,

Figure 1 is a side elevation of a support embodying my improvements;

Fig. 2 is a vertical sectional view of the same;

Fig. 3 is an elevation taken at right-angles to Fig. 1;

Fig. d is a fragmentary side elevation showlng the handle in extendedposition;

Fig. 5 is an enlarged detail view illustratmg the locking elementscarried by the handle in locked engagement with the support standard;and,

Fig. 6 is a similar view illustrating looking elements in normalposition.

Referring to the drawings in detail wherein like characters of referencedesignate like parts throughout the several views, the numeral 5designates a tubular standard provided with a base 6. Verticallyadjustable in the standard 5 is a toothed supporting bar 7 provided witha supporting head 8 at its upper end adapted to engage a vehicle axle orthe like to retain the same in elevated position. As is disclosed in myprior Patent 1,320,613 I provide a locking means designated in itsentirety at 9 for cooperation with the toothed rack bar to retain thesame in adjusted position. One face of the bar 7 is provided with alongitudinal groove 10, the ends of which stop short of the ends of thebar and engaged in this groove is a set-screw 11 extending laterallyfrom the standard 5 which prevents the withdrawal of the bar from thestandard.

Extending transversely through the head 8 at the center thereof is arelatively long pin 12, the ends of which project beyond the oppositefaces of the head 8. There is provided a resilient U-shaped handle 13,the legs of which are formed with laterally disposed loops 14: adjacenttheir inner ends. These legs are also provided with eyes or bearings 15pivotally and longitudinally engaged on the pin 12, the innerextremities of these legs terminating in downwardly extended opposedhooks 16 adapted to be engaged with outstanding ribs 17 formed upon theupper end of the standard 5 to lock the handle in the positionillustrated in Fig. 1- to retain the tooth bar against a longitudinalmovement with respect to the standard. The outstanding ribs 17 do notextend entirely across the standard, thus the laterally disposed loopsit will not be obstructed during the swinging of the handle.

When it is desired to carry the support the handle is swung to theposition shown in Fig. 4 and the resilient leg of the handle grasped bythe operator and moved toward each other to engage the hooks 16 beneaththe ribs 17.

Vith the support in the position illustrated in Fig. 4 when it isdesired to elevate the tooth bar the legs of the handle are allowed tospread apart farenough for the hooks 16 to clear the ribs 17 but not farenough to permit the laterally disposed loops from moving beyond theupper edges of the standard. lVith these loops engaging the upper edgeof the standard the lever may be moved downwardly with these loops as afulcrum to raise the toothed bar. When the handle is not in use it isextended parallel to the standard and the laterally disposed loops 14will engage the same and due to the resiliency of the legs of thehandle, the handle will not accidentally swing on its pivot 12.

The embodiment of the invention illustrated and described is a practicalstructure but I wish here to state that the invention may be embodied inother constructions and that my limits of such embodiments are onlygoverned by what is claimed.

What is claimed is:

1. The combination with a tubular standard and a supporting barvertically adjust able therein, of a pin extending transversely throughthe upper end of the vertically adjustable member, a handle including apair of resilient legs having eyes formed therein at one end thereof andloosely engaged on the pin, and opposed locking hooks extending from thepivoted ends of the legs and adapted to engage the upper end of thestandard and lock the same against movement with respect to the liftingbar, the handle being normally disposed parallel to the standard and thelocking hooks normally disengaged from the standard.

2. The combination with a support including. a stationary member and avertically adjustable supporting member associated therewith, of a pinextending transversely through the upper end of the lifting bar andhaving the ends thereof extended beyond the opposed faces thereof, aresilient U-shaped handle having eyes formed at one end thereof andmounted for slidable and rotary movement on the pin, and lockingelements carried by the eyes adapted to engage the standard upon movingthe legs of the U-shaped handle toward each other to retain the standardand lifting member against movement with respect to each other.

3. In a support, a standard, a lifting member vertically adjustabletherein, a pin extending transversely through the upper end of thelifting member and having its ends projecting laterally therefrom, ahandle including a pair of resilient legs bent adjacent their inner endsto afford eyes, the latter being slidably mounted on the outstandingends of the pin, the legs terminating in opposed hooks adapted to engagean outstanding member carried by the upper end of the standard uponmoving the legs toward each other whereby the handle will be retained ina position laterally of the standard and the vertically movable memberlocked against movement.

at. The combination with a standard provided with an outstanding rib atits upper en d, a vertically adjustable supporting member associatedwith the standard, a pin eX- tending transversely through the upper endof the vertically movable supporting member and having the ends thereofprojecting laterally therefrom, a resilient U-shaped handle havingbearings formed at one end thereof and engaged on the outstanding endsof the pin, parallel opposed hooks carried by the pivoted ends of thehandle and adapted to engage the outstanding rib upon moving the legs ofthe U-shaped handle toward each other whereby the supporting member willbe retained against movement with respect to the standard, and laterallyand inwardly extending members engaging the upper end of the standardand constituting fulcrums for the handle whereupon permitting the legsto spread apart so that the hooks will clear the rib and upon moving thehandle downwardly the supporting bar will be raised, the laterallydisposed members engaging the standard. upon arranging the handleparallel thereto to retain the handle against pivotal movement.

LEONARD L. GILCREASE.

